Image backing up

[Michael_Lambert]

Hey guys.

I know this topic gets beaten to death so thanks for popping in.

Question, is there a program out there that lets you back up a couple of folders, but only copy new files?

Currently what i do is this. on my internal storage drive ( Raid 5 3x 1 TB drives) i keep all my directories and folders made up over the years. I do it on the Raid 5 so if a hardware failure i can still recover the data with out loss.

I then keep a 1 TB external drive which i have two folders RAW and JPEG and i just do that keep my RAW files in one and my jpegs in the other, no sort of filing just dumped in for backup.. as i rely alot on my RAID 5 Storage (Never an issue so far ).

I then back up that 1TB drive to my Server at work, and keep the external drive stored in a fireproof safe in my garage.

Where its killing me right now is that weekly i do a search for *.CR2 and *.jpeg and copy the files respectively to there folders on the backup drive and the dam thing takes about 3.5 hours right now ( 590 gigs of files )

So is there a program out there that will weekly just scan the PC for image files that are not currently in the backup directories and copy them instead of me copying all the images over each other each week?

Make sense?

[eddarr]

Synctoy from microsoft is free and works fairly well. It has a few options for backup type that will determine how the backup is done.

Be careful using a fireproof safe for data storage. They may be fireproof but it really has more to do with temp than it does flames. Check the temp rating for the safe to determine if your storage media will be safe.

[Michael_Lambert]

I understand the Temp thing.. I have done the best i think i can with it i have it mounted right on the outside corner of the garage. I do believe that it would be the coolest area of the structure should the house catch on fire.

[Radtech1]

I asked the same thing a couple weeks ago. There were several suggestions.

I use Karens replicator, works much like Robo copy, but has a really nice easy to use GUI (for those of us who haven't used scripts since DOS).

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp

I took Moppies advice and tried Karen's Replicator, and I found it does pretty much what you want - I have it set to sync specific folders on different drives - so I don't know if it will "scan the PC" as you asked. You CAN define source and destination folders, though - maybe that would work for you. Price is right, too. (free)

Rad

[Michael_Lambert]

Cool thanks Radtech.. I am just running a created job now and see how it works :D

[Radtech1]

Cool thanks Radtech.. I am just running a created job now and see how it works :D

Glad to be of service. If you like wicked cool freeware, check the program I found in this thread:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=550402

Rad

[Michael_Lambert]

Humm..


With this file, i had it do a job searching C:\ searching for *.CR2 and wanted to copy to a folder on the desktop and it copied over not just the files but a bunch of directories and many of them have nothing in it?

[weather_wrangler]

Hey guys.

I know this topic gets beaten to death so thanks for popping in.

Question, is there a program out there that lets you back up a couple of folders, but only copy new files?

If you are a Windows Vista user, Robocopy is available. It reqires a simple one time only batch file creation, and then you simply right click and run as admin to start up the task. Only copies new files to the destination. Once the first job is done, everything after that is faster than a rocket.

The backup could even be run out of Task Scheduler if you like.

Another really great backup program for new files only to destination is Syncback. There's a freeware version of that. Super prog!

[number six]

I use SyncBack SE: http://www.2brightsparks.com/

It'll do what you want - very flexible. There are a couple of different ways to get backups of only new or updated files.

There's a freeware version, but I upgraded to the modestly priced SE version so I could get my backup files to have the date automatically inserted in the filename.

-js

[alduin]

+1 for SyncBack. I use it to sling backups of my photos, music, documents, etc. back and forth between our home workstations, two remote servers, my home file server, and Amazon S3. The freeware version is extremely flexible and I used it for quite some time before purchasing the Pro version for its SSH capabilities.